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Dr. Neil Arya hosts a conversation with two young African men who will participate in the up-coming Pegasus conference. Unfortunately, the wars that send people to these camps often follow them there.
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- James Achuli
- Deen Opondo
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Episode 746 Climate and National Economies
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Patrick Bond reminds John Feffer of an alliance that began when Obama “barge into” a meeting of “semi-peripheral” states and convinced them to continue promoting the use of fossil fuels.
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- Patrick Bond
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Episode 745 Mental Wellness in Wars
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A tip from three experienced therapists: Donβt over-inflate the importance of trauma. Recognize your clientsβ resilience and encourage them to find support in their own communities.
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- Rachel Thibeault
- Bree Akesson
- Hadi Rasooli
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Episode 744 Global Town Hall Jan 2026
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Paul Werbos’s green screen – an Xray of the universe β occasions a long conversation about cosmology. And Bill Leikam told us about a project to create a corridor from Alaska to Mexico for wildlife.
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- Dr.Brian von Herzen
- Paul Werbos
- Marilyn Krieger
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Episode 743 Conscientious Objection
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This episode discusses the story of Dimitrii, a Russian deserter from the army, and his journey to Argentina with help from Misha Elizbarashvili and Jurgen Menzels.
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- Dimitri
- Misha Elizbarashvili
- Jurgen Menzels
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Episode 742 Local Ocean Fertilization
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Peter Fiekowsky, Brian von Herzen, and Robert Tulip discuss the concept of local ocean fertilization and its potential to cool the planet by feeding the phytoplankton that remove CO2 from the air.
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- Peter Fiekowsky
- Brian von Herzen
- Robert Tulip
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Episode 741 Indigenous Actions at COP
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Jacob Johns and John Feffer discuss the impact of fossil fuel power and the solidarity witnessed at the COP meeting.
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- Jacob Johns
- John Feffer
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Episode 740 The Right to Health
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Valerie Percival has worked helping refugees in conflict zones. Michael Lynk was UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine. They discuss Gazans’ deprivation of the right to health.
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- Valerie Percival
- Michael Lynk
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Episode 739 Let’s Brighten Some Clouds
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Alan Gadian discusses early Marine Cloud Brightening research by John Latham and Stephen Salter. Robert Tulip and Peter Wadhams are also engaged in this research.
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- Alan Gadian
- Robert Tulip
- Peter Wadhams
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Episode 738 Global Town Hall Dec 2025
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This episode discusses Israel vs Hamas, geoengineering, and storytelling in indigenous cultures, emphasizing the implications of religious mythologies on scientific thinking.
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Episode 737 Who Gets Russia’s Money?
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Lloyd Axworthy, along with Allan Rock and Fen Hampson, had initiataed the proposal to use Russia’s in vestments in Canada as reparations to Ukraine. So what happened to that idea?
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- Lloyd Axworthy
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Episode 735 Persons Missing and On the Move
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In this episode, Jose Pablo Baraybar and Apostolos Veizis discuss the plight of individuals who have fled their countries seeking safety but faced tragic outcomes. For the video and audio podcast, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-735-persons-missing-and-on-the
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- Jose Pablo Baraybar
- Apostolos Veizis
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Episode 736 Climate Debt
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This episode discusses the costs of transitioning from fossil fuels with Tom Athanasiou and host John Feffer, suggesting a ‘Fair Share’ approach for emissions accountability.
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- Tom Athanasiou
- John Feffer
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Episode 734 Forest Fires
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David Martell, a professor emeritus of forestry, U of Toronto, studies forest fires. There are now many fires in Canada’s northern boreal forests, so we all should learn how to protect our vulnerable homes.
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- David Martell
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Episode 733 Simulated Peacekeeping
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Walter Dorn admits to being a “sheep in wolf’s clothing” — a peace activist teaching military officers in a university setting. His new video course on peacekeeping looks a bit like a computer game.
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- Walter Dorn
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Episode 732 Tell Stories About Social Problems
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Robert Tulip, Aria McKenna, and Brian von Herzen are climate repair activists. We want to influence government policy and to do that must influence public opinion too. Here we discuss how to do so.
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- Robert Tulip
- Aria McKenna
- Brian von Herzen
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Episode 731 Global Town Hall Nov 2025
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After considering what kind of ice is best for building snowmen, we turned to serious matters β cloud reflectivity and climate; corruption; Russian deserters; and poisoned wildlife.
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- Marilyn krieger
- Peter Wadhams
- Richard Denton
- Robert Tulip
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Episode 730 Pugwash and Two-Track Diplomacy
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Katariina Simonen, Poul Erik Christensen and Peter Jones are all peace workers who practice and write about two-track diplomacy β mainly through the same remarkable organization, Pugwash.
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- Katariina Simonen
- Poul Erik Christensen
- Peter Jones
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